#universe

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

Humor is just another defense against the universe. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#against #another #defense #just #universe

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#center #i #i am #i think #therefore

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#believe #could #entire #entire universe #foolish

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #end #even #except #first

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#come #day #expanding #forever #going

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#life #science #universe #beauty

Near the sun is the center of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#near #sun #universe

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth